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INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE VOICE OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

First Published in 1994

INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE VOICE OF
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

Strategy for Destroying Free Enterprise through Orchestrated Crisis (First in a Series)

Have you ever heard of the “Cloward-Piven Strategy”? Most Americans not committed to   destroying the free enterprise system in our constitutional republic in order to “redistribute wealth” had never heard of it until recently. Now we are learning that the Cloward-Piven Strategy is the Obama Administration strategy for “change.”

More and more people are finally waking-up to the fact that the man who was elected president of the United States last fall has not kept his promises of reducing taxes and providing and saving jobs. In fact, the results of the first six months of his administration have produced the opposite of what was promised.

Furthermore, his administration has squandered hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowed money. At the same time, they have made significant headway in dismantling major segments of the free enterprise system. Much of this money went to special interests involved in carrying out the Obama agenda. General Motors has become Government Motors and Chrysler has been forced to merge with a multinational corporation. In addition, this administration has proposed rushing through government takeover of the massive US private health care, drug and health insurance industries.

Plans for becoming more energy independent, by developing our oil, natural gas and nuclear power potential, have been scrapped in favor of providing government grants to environmentalists who will manufacture and market    windmills, solar panels and plug-in golf carts with doors and windows to replace the American internal combustion engine powered automobile.

Taxes will be raised to provide funds to bribe people to purchase these expensive, inefficient contraptions they would not otherwise buy.

In order to understand Obamaism, it is necessary to have an understanding of the goals of 1960s radicals and terrorists who disrupted the US political, information and education systems and had a major role in delivering much of Southeast Asia to Communist rule.

Saul Alinsky’s 1972 book Rules for Radicals became the satanic rulebook for the pro-Marxist radicals to pursue their ultimate goal of destroying the U.S. Free Enterprise System that had provided the highest standard of living the world has ever known and served as a barrier against Communist domination of the Western World.

A specific strategy for carrying out the goals of the 60s radicals in the post-Vietnam War era, many of whom went underground or became college professors after the US government abandoned Southeast Asia to Communist rule, was first proposed in 1966 at Columbia University in New York City.

All efforts to destroy the U.S. free enterprise system using   external military forces have failed. The only way to achieve success would be through internal strife.

The strategy designed to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse, was developed by and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.

The Cloward-Piven Strategy was inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles (which erupted after police had used batons to subdue a black man suspected of drunk driving).

Cloward and Piven published an article titled The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty in the May 2, 1966, issue of The Nation. Their strategy for creating and exploiting crisis became known among academic leftists and other revolutionaries as the “Crisis Strategy” or “Cloward-Piven Strategy.”

Their strategy was to end poverty by   loading down the government with welfare recipients until the system could no longer support the cost and create a financial crisis. In order to create rebellion, community organizers would expose the inadequacies of the welfare system, using Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules,” including following every law, Judeo-Christian moral tenet and promise.

Their plan was to conduct a “massive drive to recruit the poor into the welfare system, creating a profound financial and political crisis that would unleash ‘cadres of aggressive organizers’ to use demonstrations to create a climate of militancy.”

There would be threats of black violence to intimidate the politicians. The dominant leftist media would float suggestions that a redistribution of wealth would be the only means by which order could be restored. The people and their elected representatives would cave in to the pressure and the radicals using the strategy would win and achieve power and wealth.

To those unfamiliar with the contrived strategy, it would appear that there was a genuine need to provide urgent help to the downtrodden, mistreated and neglected poor citizens.

The real objective, however, was to draft poor people into service as revolutionary foot soldiers, such as “Acorn” led by community organizers to overwhelm government agencies with demands beyond their capacity to meet. Ultimately, the budget would be broken, the bureaucracy caused to gridlock, causing fear, turmoil, violence and economic collapse, creating perfect conditions for radical change.

That was the theory and the plan in the summer of 1967.

(To be continued.)

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